Death Match: Gone With The Wind Vs Infinite Jest

What if the two weightiest books I’ve read so far on the Time list squared off in a death match? What would happen?

Oh, you don’t think books would ever get in vicious and violent death matches, do you? Well, you obviously don’t have my warped mind.

Gone With The Wind and Infinite Jest are obnoxiously large books. They’re leviathans, the sumo wrestlers of the literary kingdom. If they squared off in a fight to the death, here’s how I see it breaking down: